Unit of measure conversion

[Former Member]

Hello All

could you please explain me how unit of measure ( sales unit and base UOM) works and their conversions in matrial master and in purchase info record?

My scenario is this

base UOM is pc (piece)

sales unit ( KG)

while creating sales order it is taking as KG .after that PO is created auatomatically for this sales order. PO is also having KG as UOM.

After goods receipt happens and while updating confirmed quantity of schedule line in sales order it is updating in pieces.

eventhough sales unit is KG , why its converting into pieces ( waht is the need)

Points to note are the conversion in material master is 1pc= 1p and 1kg=2pc

thanks for the early reply.

[madlercm]

Stock is managed in BUOM, so in case you have a transaction in an alternative UOM, system will convert to BUOM.

It is my opinion, that in cases a material has both non-dimentional UOM, like PC, and (numeric) ISO UOM like KG, it is better to have the ISO UOM as BUOM; the other way around may lead to unwanted rounding issues.